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Quotes About Spending

Kad biste im mogli samo dokazati da živjeti i trošiti nije jedno te isto!
~ D.H. Lawrence
sculpture for their desks, and mass-market consumers were not eager to spend twice what
~ Walter Isaacson
Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.
~ Warren Buffett
Do not save what is left after expending, but spend what is left after saving.
~ Warren Buffett
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
~ Warren Buffett
Used to tell me that people spend money on three things: what they love, what they worship, and what helps ease their pain.
~ Charles Martin
The argument starts by accepting that the American government will continue to spend a huge amount of money on income transfers. It then contends that we should take all of that money and give it back to the American people in cash grants. The
~ Charles Murray
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
~ Charles Schumer
Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends
~ Charles Seife
Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government "in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go.
~ Charles W. Calhoun
Making money takes time, so when we shop, we're really spending time. The real cost of living isn't measured in dollars and cents but in the hours and minutes we must work to live."1
~ Charles Wheelan
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
~ Chester A. Arthur
Judas. It's none of your business how other people spend their money. Mary bought this expensive nard as an expression of her love. That love will be remembered for thousands of years.
~ Chester Brown
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
~ Robert Half, unverified
The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
~ Hanna Holborn Gray
Isn't it awful how they work at terrible jobs—have you seen Sophronie's hands lately—and then waste their money?
~ Harriette Arnow
If the dollars you lose in taxes are important to you, then what about the dollars you may be spending to perpetuate boxes you could get out of?
~ Harry Browne
Spending more money ensures greater happiness. This is the confused thinking of the duped consumer.
~ Heather Havrilesky
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
~ Lee Iacocca
People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
~ Lee Iacocca
All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do.
~ Lemony Snicket
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch…is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.
~ Lemony Snicket
In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.
~ leno jay ii